BlackBerry PlayBook now has 10,000 apps

RIM has announced there are 10,000 apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook, and more are on the way. With the recent release of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0, RIM now allows Android apps to be ported to the PlayBook. This should give the PlayBook many more apps in the months to come.

“There’s a multiplier effect and we’re on the cusp of seeing that happening,” said Martyn Mallick, RIM vice president for global alliances.

RIM is banking on the apps to bring the PlayBook back in the game. The initial response to the PlayBook was tepid at best.

Alec Saunders, RIM’s vice-president for developer relations, acknowledged that the PlayBook’s initial failure to live up to its billing had frustrated developers.

“I think we set some expectations that we shouldn’t have but that’s ancient history,” he told reporters.

I think the failure of the PlayBook had to do with the lack of native apps like email, as well as the iPad pricing. You simply cannot compete with the iPad if your tablet has fewer features.

What do you think? Is the possibility of running Android apps enough to make you pick up a PlayBook?